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Gambara is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1837 in the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris at the request of its editor Maurice Schlesinger. It is one of the Études philosophiques of La Comédie humaine .
Gambara is a Germanic wise woman (also called priestess or seeress) who appears in several sources from the 8th to 12th centuries. The legend is about the origin of the Langobard people , then known as the Winnili, and it takes place either before they emigrated from Scandinavia or after their migration, having settled in modern-day northern ...
Jainendra Kumar (2 January 1905 – 24 December 1988) was a 20th-century Indian writer who wrote in Hindi.He wrote novels include Sunita and Tyagapatra.He was awarded one of India's highest civilian honours, the Padma Bhushan in 1971. [1]
Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1907 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars [a] of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. [1] She has also been addressed as the modern Meera. [2]
Harishankar Parsai (22 August 1922 – 10 August 1995) was an Indian writer who wrote in Hindi.He was a noted satirist and humorist of modern Hindi literature and is known for his simple and direct style. [1]
Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. [2] He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.
Mannu Bhandari (3 April 1931 – 15 November 2021) was an Indian author, screenplay writer, teacher, and playwright. Primarily known for her two Hindi novels, Aap Ka Bunty (Your Bunty) and Mahabhoj (Feast), Bhandari also wrote over 150 short stories, several other novels, screenplays for television and film, and adaptations for theater.
For me, he is a very major sculptor of fiction. He has revealed the power of both standard [manak] Hindi, as well as the non-standard [ghair-manak] Hindi of the ordinary" (Sharma, Amritlal Nagar Rachnavali, Vol 1, p. 47). Amritlal Nagar's real genius lay in the art of developing a range of characters in his stories and novels.